Andrei Soldatov

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On August 1, Russia will significantly tighten its grip on blogging and social media conversations and will acquire expanded powers to block Internet services originating abroad. The new authorities, approved by Russia's parliament in April, buttress existing regulations that have already been used to block several independent news sites, some of which reported on the political upheaval in Ukraine in a way that apparently drew the government's ire.

How do you crack Russia's vaunted security service? You go
to low- and mid-level officials for information, say Russian journalists Andrei
Soldatov and Irina Borogan, authors of the new book, The
New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring
Legacy of the KGB. At a luncheon for CPJ supporters on Thursday, Soldatov
and Borogan detailed how today's Federal Security Service, or FSB, enjoys the impunity
of the noble classes of bygone eras. And, of course, the authors discussed how
they managed to get information about the secretive agency.